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Abstract
Over the last few years, a considerable scope in the science of Robotics, is re-
lated with the field of the development and the evolution of unmanned vehicles. The
modern demands for flexible and autonomous systems, that will assist or replace
humans, in either dangerous or not applications, have resulted in the development of
vehicles capable of performing challenging missions and participating in a variety of
applications.
Diploma thesis makes possible the surveillance of the surrounding area of an
unmanned ground vehicle, in real time, along with its handling via a joypad, through
an application running on a computer. The established communication system, is un-
der the family of IEEE 802.11 standards. Implementation required a radio-controlled
car, which incorporates a suitably programmed computing platform BeagleBoard-xM.
In addition, there have been required a Wi-Fi adapter and a webcam.
Keywords: unmanned vehicles, embedded systems, BeagleBoard-xM, Linux, Ångström,
Visual Studio, C++, C++/CLI, C, Internet Protocol Suite, IEEE 802.11, Wi-Fi